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Developing a variable budget for occupational therapy contract work.

A Dickerson
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Contract occupational therapists need to develop a financial plan for improved control of their business. The variable budget allows financial planning according to actual performance volume. This paper describes a step-by-step method for the development of a variable budget through the illustration of a case example.

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A Dickerson. 1990. Developing a variable budget for occupational therapy contract work.. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.44.9.803

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